D. The house burns to the ground the day after the narrator kills the first cat. The day after the narrator killed the cat by hanging it from one of the beams of their cellar, their house burned to the ground. They were sleeping when their neighbors’ cries woke them up only to find out that their house is on fire.
Paradoxes work by circularly falsifying the previous statement, and changing what the statement is asking.
There was a time when I was a victim of ineffective listening. I was sharing to someone about a family problem of mine and then this person seemed to only listen half-heartedly. The barrier present was that he was not ready to listen to my problems and then the result is that he gave me poor advice. That was really annoying.